Smart Today

What it is

Smart Today is a card on the Log screen that spots the training rotation you already follow and names the day you are due for. Most people run a push, pull, legs split without ever telling the app, so Kinoku reads that pattern from your own history instead. The card names the workout, shows about how long it takes and which muscles it trains, and one tap on Start opens it. Tap the card itself to see why it was picked and every exercise in it.

What you see on each tier

Smart Today is a graduated feature, where the Today card shows for everyone and the depth grows with your tier.

• Free spots your A/B/C rotation on its own, follows the groups you build, names the workout you are due for, and adds a Start button.
• Free also draws the muscles the workout trains, or bars for your last few runs on a run day.
• Free counts your week against your target and lists a routine you do every few days when it is due.
• Pro shades those muscles by how rested each one is, so you can see which ones are still tired.
• Pro also adds an easy-day override, so after a short night or low heart rate variability (HRV) the card suggests an easier session. A second button still starts the one it replaced.

How it spots your pattern

Kinoku finds an A, B, C style rotation in two ways, and the example on this page is a push, pull, legs split trained 3 times a week.

By your saved routines

Say you train those three days from the same saved routines each week. Kinoku groups your workouts by the routine you used, so three routines in a steady cycle read as one rotation, and you set up nothing.

By what each session worked

Say you skip saved routines and train on the fly instead. Kinoku then reads which muscle groups each session hit and groups the ones that look alike, so two sessions sharing 70% of their muscle groups count as one kind of day. The math behind that is called a Jaccard score, though you never have to think about it, because either way Kinoku finds the rotation on its own.

Rotation groups

Once a rotation is found you can name it, like “Push / Pull / Legs,” and the group links the routines it matches. Groups are free, and Smart Today picks from a group with a few rules:

• An ordered group moves through its routines in turn, so Pull comes after Push.
• A smart group picks by what your week still needs, leaning toward the kind of day you are furthest behind on.
• It will not push you past your week, so once you hit the group’s weekly target the card stops picking from that group. It then turns to your other groups or your history, which can still name one of the group’s routines.

Weekly cadence header

The top of the Log screen carries a Weekly Cadence header, which tracks your pace against a routine’s goal. With those routines set to 3 times a week, you see how many of the three you have done. A row of day chips shows the past sessions and the rest days ahead.

You can set the goal per routine:

• Weekly: a set number of sessions every 7 days.
• Every N days: a fixed gap between sessions, for programs that need one.
• Not scheduled: for on-the-fly routines that should not drive the count.

The body figure

For most strength, mobility and interval sessions, the card draws a small body that shows the muscles the workout trains. On Pro those muscles are shaded by how rested each one is right now, from fresh to worked hard, and a short key names the colours. The shading does not choose the workout, since Free and Pro pick it the same way apart from Pro’s easy day. Tap the card to open its preview with a larger body, then tap that body to open the full Muscle Map.

Training roles on routines

Each routine carries a role, one of Main, Accessory, Run, or HIIT (high-intensity interval training), and Kinoku picks the role on its own. If you mostly bench, squat, and deadlift, that reads as a Main day, while cable work reads as an Accessory day. Kinoku can guess wrong here, so you can change the role any time.

Roles feed the rotation and the cadence count, because Main days count toward your weekly goal while a core day does not use up a slot.

More on the Today screen

For your first two weeks, a Getting started list sits on Today with five steps, such as a plan or a road, your first finished workout and a Kinoku widget on your home screen. Each step ticks itself off from what you have already done, and one tap hides the list.

You can swipe Today ahead to read a later day’s program, skill and calendar sessions. They are there to read ahead of time, and you start each one on its day. Marking rest from Today offers Undo, and that Undo clears only the rest day the tap marked.

Where it fits

Pro adds the recovery shading and the easy-day override on top of the card everyone gets, and that card already follows your groups. You can log every workout for free, with no cap on routines or history. One limit sits beside that: Kinoku is Android only, so the card lives on the single phone holding your history.

Related

• Routines & Programs: where you build the rotation blocks.
• Training Calendar: free forward planning, with Pro scheduling shortcuts.
• AI Coach: the daily coaching screen that reads your rotation.

The free layer

Nothing about the daily pick sits behind a paywall. Free automatically spots your A/B/C rotation from your own history, follows the groups you build, names the next step, and adds a Start button. Free also draws the muscles each workout trains and your recent runs. Pro shades that body by how fresh each muscle is and adds an easy-day pick when sleep or HRV is low. The rules above describe how the pick works today, and the free card stays free whatever Pro adds later.